Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University hoopmen have been going through stiff drill and scrimmage practice in the past four days. The combination of H. T. Wenner '30 and A. W. Slocum '28 at the forward positions, and J. N. Barbee '28 and R. L. Hatch '28 at guard ought to make trouble for the Purple team, as evidenced by the scoring power that the Crimson men showed in some of the recent games...
...years before certain armies met there to settle modern differences, a Dutch soldier was commended by his king. "Sire," he replied modestly, "I break before I bend." The King pondered a moment to confer the correct name on this excellent, albeit proud and slightly stubborn servant. He called him "stiff-necked" which being translated into Dutch is "Goethals...
Another day dawned and there lay the cruiser Memphis, smart as a yacht. The Texas, massive manofwar, waited respectfully far offshore. The embarkation ceremonies were stiff but sun-warmed. The Texas poured out a torrent of black smoke and clove the deep blue Gulf for gay Havana...
...shining like inverted sprays of silver in the light of many candles, looked over their fans at a crumbling world and at gentlemen who took snuff, with elaborate and effeminate gesture, from small, silver boxes. In the rooms where they danced or laughed or whispered were chairs, tapestried in stiff silk, little frivolous statues, the infinitely suave and polished paintings of Watteau or Jean Honore Fragonard. Last week, in Manhattan, snuff boxes, chairs, desks, paintings, tapestries, busts, the wide golden branches in which tall candles had once burned brightly, were offered for sale at the American Art Galleries. These?...
...recently approved by the Church Assembly, and submitted to the House of Lords last week. So important loomed this revised manual of prayer, that the Lords Spiritual and Temporal assembled in greater numbers than at any time since the World War. The four benches assigned to bishops towered with stiff regalia. Then up rose, to put the motion, the Right Honorable and Most Reverend Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England...